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Mood that never misses a beat.
Bobby knows that he's not interested in girls and misses what he had with Dylan.
Well, to my surprise, it actually misses the mark...not by much, but enough to make me not recommend it.
Too bad, this film doesn't contain any of this and every joke misses the spot.
More misses than hits in the joke department, and it is also really lame to see Korman playing the evil brother role.
But Virginia City (the movie) misses all that and is more about a hogwash North/South duello between the characters played by Errol Flynn and Randolph Scott.
The movie totally misses the mark.
OK, hold on--maybe it's really just one little mentally tangled "Delbert"-style redneck boy who misses his Mommy and is on some kind of spree like a K-Tel Norman Bates knock off?
She decides to use an ax, once she downs the Santa killer who misses several chances to chop off the woman's head, to frame the killer for her husband's murder.
A pale shadow of a great musical, this movie suffers from the fact that the director, Richard Attenborough, completely misses the point of the musical, needlessly "opens" it up, and muddies the thrust of the play.
The movie cuts out some characters, and misses a lot of the main points of the book.
Peter Ustinov tries hard here to bring something to life but the result is a dour bore that misses all the right beats that might have made it watchable.
About ten minutes in, two chimpanzees are goofing around in Russo's kitchen and start throwing a butcher's knife back and forth (it misses Alan Cumming's head by inches); yet, no eyebrows are raised because it's all in a day's fun.
The film tries to spark patriotism and a sense of debt to the fighting men, but the film misses that point totally because of its weak plot line and weak cast.
It totally misses the mark when it comes to the "message" it is TRYING to relay.
Also, Valentine gives us a boorish and pathetic portrayal of a suffering vampire who misses the day(to see a much more convincing rendition of the suffering vampire see Denice Duff in "Bloodstorm: Subspecies 4").
Interesting story about a soldier in a war who misses out on saving the life of a young girl from the enemy and is haunted by this event, even though he did save many other captive children.
In another room, Weezer relays instructions to Mary Ann of making taffy from the radio but because he keeps running back and forth to the kitchen, he misses the lady announcer's segue to rice pudding and Spanish tamale confusing Mary Ann with additions of Tabasco and Lux!
He misses Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth), who got married and has a son with Richard White (James Marsden).
Now you would have to of been at least 30 or so in 1980 to really understand this point because studying film historically misses the mind set at the time the expectations, and other related psychological factors.
Weak,stale, tired, cliched; wants to be Basic Instinct, but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives, new insights.
This film is stale, and misses the mark.
There is nothing worse than comedy that just misses being funny, and this misses every time (although I can't speak for the last 25 minutes of the movie).
Aside from that, this film misses the target with its lame jokes and seen-it-already gross-out humor.
The story attempts to be a dark comedy, but The Cat's Meow misses an important piece of this equation, comedy.
This movie misses the mark in almost every way.
It simply misses its mark on every count.
One of the things he misses entirely is Ozu's attention to character - we are not even "introduced" by Hou to his lead character (a perfect blank page).
Ben Masters,(Kyd Thomas),"Dream Lover",'86 plays a sort of Mike Hammer character, a private eye who does any old job for a buck and never misses out on all the sexy curves of good looking gals.
"Star Trek" is back - "Voyager," nobody misses you!
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